My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is, ' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

Come, get entwined in the dream catcher of my heart.

I am most right because I realize I am most wrong

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

The three salient features of love are: Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is love, there is no pain. Where there is love, there is nothing impossible.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

It’s all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing…you blink your eyes and somebody says ‘Goodnight’ to you.

Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

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